Ethiopian P.M., a Nobel peace laureate, will lead battle from front line

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FYI, the reason I posted this is that Ethiopia has been the poster-boy for successful development and GDP growth in Africa, and now this appears to be threatened by a tiny insurgency - Tigray People’s Liberation Front - that appears unstoppable as it marches on the capital. Tigray is this tiny region that nevertheless provided Ethiopia with three decades of corrupt rule. Now there are remnants of Tigray people hiding for fear in the capital while the government desperately marshals the army against them, but the rebels keep advancing.

There is, unfortunately, a general dearth of news about developments in Africa; it would be interesting to know if there are any Ethiopian readers who might provide their own perspective on this.

> it would be interesting to know if there are any Ethiopian readers who might provide their own perspective on this.

me, too.

(I guess we wont hear much from the North, 'cause of the Internet lock down which has been on for a lot: I think for more then a year)

also in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29348578#29348877

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